The Kestrel, by Volante Design.

http://volantedesign.us

Light weight but durable, and our most comfortable jacket to date. Made from light/mid weight denim and fully lined. Perfect for cool spring days and summer nights. Gauntlet-style cuffs are half denim, half cotton knit, and made to stretch and fit your wrist, making for a comfortable snug fit that keeps the sleeve out of the way.

Available in mens and womens cuts, seven sizes each, and four major color schemes. Each one is hand made and produced within the domestic USA.

The Demon Killer: Back View

Originally the hood was going to be sewn into a seam halfway up the collar, and then I had an epiphany: same design, but with a hidden zipper, so that the hood can be removable.

So what you are seeing here is a collar with a panel that hides a zipper. When the hood is attached, the collar effectively becomes the lower half of the hood, which folds up along with the rest of the hood (as shown in the bottom row). This means that in wind and rain when you want a hood and a popped collar, you get that in one motion, and the hood and collar don’t get in each other’s way and bunch up at the back of the neck.

I’m personally very pleased with this design, and excited to start producing it after we’ve reopened orders. Updates on that front are coming very soon.

davidcater:

“My parents deserve justice.”

Assassin’s Creed Modern Armor (Batman Edition) by Enzo Volante.

I love Assassin’s Creed, and always been a fan of Batman. Given the amount of similarities in some of the ways the stories played out, I liked the concept of mixing the two together and Enzo managed to create a wonderful result out of it. I’m so glad he managed to bring something like this to life and his work definitely deserves credit and praise. If I could recommend anyone for Assassin’s Creed based clothing, Enzo is your man.

The Redcoat.

Something I got the inspiration for months ago, and finally got overwhelmed with the need to draw it this week. I don’t know if we’ll ever make it, but I just had to draw it.

I’m still working on the womens version, which unlike most of the rest of my designs has a significantly different cut, although it is based on the same concepts.

If I had my way, both coats would be wool, or something similarly soft and wrinkle free, to help promote the clean line feeling of the design.

All images and designs are copyright Volante Design 2013.

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PS: This has nothing to do with that other thing I have been hinting at for the last few days. I should have more news on that fron by the end of the week.

The Demon Killer.

New trench coat design based on Dante from Devil May Cry. I’ve always wanted to design a Dante coat, as I’ve been playing the series since the first game came out. With the newest installment coming out soon, I thought the time was right.

Simple, straightforward, but with pinch of ostentatious thrown in and a Volante twist. The hood will be sewn in to the collar so that when the hood is raised, the collar goes with it, referencing the old Dante tall collar look. [read: DMC2]

It will also be water resistant, with wide-based shoulder epaulettes to help give extra protection from the elements to the tops of your shoulders.

I will be posting detailed sketches about how I see the rest of the jacket being constructed at some point.

Assassin Jacket.

This is the evolved form of the black/yellow beaked jacket from a few weeks ago. The design has been adjusted to increase range of motion so that it is more suitable for parkour and stunting. It also now has zipper pockets, so that you don’t lose your things while jumping from rooftop to rooftop.

This is the third and final Volante jacket to be used as a costume is Assassin’s Creed: Artefact 2

Shown in the Practical Assassin color scheme: grey main, red secondary.

Assassin Beaked Jacket: Daniel Cross color scheme.

I would like to introduce this new design. It is an upgraded version of the Beaked pullover/zipper hoodie seen here: http://blog.volantedesign.us/post/18382002708

It will be available in two versions, un-lined and lined. At this point it doen’t have a concrete price point, but expect around ~$125-$150.

The jacket is designed with a higher range of motion than that of the Modern Armor, but has the sturdiness of denim that the sweatshirts don’t quite provide. There will be an option to order the jacket with ‘gauntlet cuffs’ as pictured here, or the standard cuffs of the Modern Armor. In future incarnations of the jacket, I will probably change the pockets to zippered pockets, so that the jacket can be worn for high-activity sports like parkour.

I have had tons of requests to see what it looks like with an ‘actual person’ wearing the Kenway jacket. Now you can see why I photoshop them. I don’t have a photo studio, so this is my driveway, and I don’t want to always be posting pictures of myself.

But here you go, an un-shooped photo of me in the Kenway jacket, which is also to show what it looks like with the hood down, but still attached.

Enjoy.

EDIT: I hate watermarks.

Ancestors: Kenway Options

Since the Kenway jacket is available with two closure options, this post is to help explain the differences. Keep in mind, I have only made the asymmetrical option, so the symmetrical images are photoshopped and approximate.

In the top two images, on the left is the center fastened option, and the right in the asymmetrical option. The symmetrical option has narrower turnback panels and falls a little further apart, because the panel is turned away from the center, where the asymmetrical option has wider panels which when turned back fall closer to the center.

The middle image shows how the asymmetrical version looks when half-closed, exposing the blue ‘lapels’, which is a feature I personally like.

The bottom two images are laid out the same way as the top two, with the symmetrical version on the left. The left one zippers down the center of the wearer’s chest, where the asymmetrical version closes more like a fencing jacket. On the actual version of the symmetrical style, the left most zipper would not be complete when the jacket is closed, but would instead be half of a zipper, as would the right most zipper, where the center zipper would be both sides of a zipper fastened together.

I hope this helps to clarify, if there are further questions, feel free to ask in email.

Kenway Jacket - $345 USD

Unfortunately, orders are currently closed. Please follow my blog or keep an eye out at volantedesign.us for updates.

Ancestors: Kenway

At long last, here it is, the Kenway coat. Based on Connor Kenway’s revolutionary war regimental assassin coat. It sports turnback center panels with reversible zippers so it can be worn open or closed, as well as turnback tails which fasten at the back center, and can be unbuttoned and let to hang, for protection from the elements. Also includes a fitted, removable hood, and reversible epaulettes with the main color [white] on one side and the accent [blue] on the other.

Currently it is available with either a center zipper which folds back, or asymmetrical fastening, for a wider fold on the front panel. There will be more photos posted tomorrow to help describe the options. I also intend to design a shorter, waist-length version at a reduced cost, for those who don’t like to wear long coats, but I had to focus on this one first. Both will include two large outer pockets, and an inside breast pocket. Available with either high quality black plastic coat buttons, or brass half-dome buttons.

I tried to keep the price as low as possible, and the price I have decided on may turn out to be too low, but I will not know until I have made a few. I apologize in advance if I have to raise the price in the future.

Available to order for men and women. The overall design will not be different, only the tailoring will change. As always, can be ordered in virtually any combination of colors. Usually made of canvas or heavy weight denim, but can be ordered to preference.

Kenway Jacket - $345 USD

Orders are currently closed. Follow me here or at my store, for updates.

A sneak preview at my current project.

I devoted almost a full day to designing this hood so that it would be the most comfortable, and coolest looking hood I’ve made yet. I want to make sure the Kenway jacket is well worth the wait since I first posted drawings in May.

I’m still working on the rest of the coat pattern, but if goes according to plan, the Kenway should be available for order by Wednesday. Keep an eye out.

Spider-Man Rework.

Decided to go back into my Webhead design, even though the other one was well loved. This one feels better to me because it is significantly different, structurally, from any of my other designs, and I think that instead of being a normal hoodie with a spider on the chest, this will wear more like a thing Spider-man might don on an off day… or something.

Also, I infused a little of the costume concepts from the new movie, just for fun.

Enjoy,

Your friendly neighborhood tailor.

Ancestors: Auditore Details.

Here are the detail sketches of the Auditore jacket. The gauntlet will be optional, and the shoulder pauldron will be able to be worn on either side, or not at all. The jacket will probably be denim, or canvas, and I would like to be able to offer it in any of the color schemes available from tailors in the games.

Enjoy!

Ancestors: Auditore

Second installment in the Ancestors series, at least one more to go. Intended to be a modern reinterpretation of Ezio, drawing inspiration from a combination of the AC2 and ACB costumes.

I’m thinking the shoulder pauldron will be removable, or able to be switched to the other side, and serve the practical purpose of protecting the side that isn’t holding the umbrella when it rains.

It will probably be denim or linen, with rough edges on either side of the red lines. I might also offer a simplified version that has fewer seams on the sleeves and chest, I just kinda got carried away with this design.

The bracer is also likely to be available, mostly for fun, if I can make it for less than $20.

Detail sketches of the side and back are on their way.

Sweet JP!

I watched Redline for the first time last month. And then I watched it again. It was so good. I assume most of my followers have not seen this movie, but I loved it so much, I had to do a redesign. That red line goes around the front of the leg, and down along the inside of the calf to the bottom hem.

Seriously, go watch the trailer for Redline (2007), and then find yourself a copy of the movie, and sit back (you might also want to strap in).

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EDIT: I just want to say, drawing pompadours is fucking fun.